Nonfiction
1. "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking
2. "All I Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten"
by Robert Fulghum
3. "Wealth Without Risk" by Charles Givens
4. "The 8-Week Cholesterol Cure" Revised Edition
by Robert Kowalski
5 "The T-Factor Diet" by Martin Katahn

Physiology or Medicine
The prize was awarded jointly to: BISHOP, J. MICHAEL, U.S.A., University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, b. 1936; and VARMUS, HAROLD E., U.S.A., University of California School of Medicine, San Francisco, CA, b. 1939: "for their discovery of the cellular origin of retroviral oncogenes"

Physics
The prize was awarded by one half to: RAMSEY, NORMAN F., U.S.A., Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, b. 1915: "for the invention of the separated oscillatory fields method and its use in the hydrogen maser and other atomic clocks" and the other half jointly to: DEHMELT, HANS G., U.S.A., University of Washington, Seattle, WA, b. 1922 (in Gsrlitz, Germany); and PAUL, WOLFGANG, Federal Republic of Germany, University of Bonn, Bonn, b. 1913, d. 1993: "for the development of the ion trap technique"

Tony Awards

Best Play: "M. Butterfly" ... David Henry Hwang
Best Musical: "The Phantom of the Opera"
Best Actor in a play: Ron Silver ... "Speed the Plow"
Best Actress in a play: Joan Allen ... "Burn This"
Best Actor in a musical: Michael Crawford ... "Phantom of the Opera"
Best Actress in a musical: Joanna Gleason ... "Into the Woods"

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